Pain, whether it’s from sickness or just growing pains, offers its own challenge to those of us who would move forward physically, mentally, spiritually, socially, or politically. “No pain, no gain” the old saying reminds us, but that really all depends on what we’re willing to do with it when it comes.
Read More..>>Today I celebrate my (ongoing) recovery . . . not from a physical disability, but from a dysfunctional belief system that threatened my very existence. I live in a daily reprieve from succumbing to the belief that I am a victim of circumstance. Today, regardless of the challenge, I live in the knowledge that with every breath that I draw comes a new opportunity for spiritual growth.
Read More..>>Nostalgia the drug, when taken in too large a dose, can cause either a compulsive longing (when a return to the “good old days” becomes our fixation) or a sense of seething indignation (when we imagine the indignities and deprivations we once suffered), or both. When nostalgia in either of these forms becomes a way of life, particularly during the midlife transition, it can effectively lock the future in a stranglehold from which it cannot escape.
Read More..>>Whether you’re 15 or 50, you’ve got some growing to do. Yet most people who are reading these words are unaware that there exists a huge obstacle to your growth that you’re just taking for granted. In fact, if you’re like most people, you probably think that this major obstacle to growth belongs there: it seems like that’s the way things are supposed to be.
Read More..>>What can you do when you’ve come to the end of a job, a career, or a contract? Your first and most important move should be to get in touch with how you feel. This is critically important because of the nature of our culture.
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